The new app salzzeit.at will now connect a total of 36 museums in the Salzkammergut Capital of Culture. Users enter a three-dimensional space and navigate through the individual institutions. At the same time, six core topics – salt, woodwork, ecology, salt transport, cultural history and the Salt Age museums – are covered. The museums selected special objects and content for this purpose, which will be presented in their own virtual museum rooms. A timeline will provide users with orientation and the opportunity to immerse themselves in different eras and topics.
The virtual journey is intended to make people want to visit the museums in the Salzkammergut themselves. The app, which is based on an idea by Hans Reschreiter, is managed by the Natural History Museum Vienna.
42 films, 107 3D objects
“Starting from the Neolithic period, the 7,000-year history of salt production runs like a thread through the content of salzzeit.at and shows how its extraction continues to shape the cultural and economic area of the Salzkammergut to this day,” says project manager Georg Tiefengraber from the Natural History Museum. In total, salzzeit.at features 42 films, 107 3D objects, 120 images, eight display boards, seven 3D animations and 36 spherical panoramas. There are also 250 compact text information items and further links.
In addition, each of the 36 museums is presented separately. These include the Kaiservilla Bad Ischl, the Ebensee concentration camp memorial tunnel, the Laakirchen papermaking museum, the Hallstatt salt mines and the Scharnstein crime museum. The app was financed by the federal government, the state of Upper Austria and the Salzkammergut Capital of Culture.
